The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of aerobic exercise and muscle strengthen exercise of elderly patients with type-Ⅱ diabetes mellitus. The subject for this study was twenty elderly patients with type-Ⅱ diabetes mellitus who...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of aerobic exercise and muscle strengthen exercise of elderly patients with type-Ⅱ diabetes mellitus. The subject for this study was twenty elderly patients with type-Ⅱ diabetes mellitus who didn't any problems of complications in participating in this study.
Twenty elderly patients with type-Ⅱ diabetes mellitus, were randomly selected and divided into three groups, aerobic exercise group(n=7) and muscle strengthen exercise group(n=7) and control group(n=6).
The experimental groups have been trained aerobic and muscle strengthen exercise.
In the experimental groups both groups practiced exercise for 50min a day, 4times a week during 12weeks, while the control group did not participated related activities.
The aerobic exercise was performed by using cycle ergometer.
The muscle strengthen exercise was performed by using elastic band at the intensity of thera-band of yellow color for 1-4weeks, and red/blue color for 5-12weeks.
All measured data were represented by mean and standard deviation using SPSS. The first statistical techniques for data analysis were univariate analysis of variance to analyze the difference between these group.